This new addition to a highly acclaimed series portrays the sweep of missions history, revealing how God has fulfilled his promise to bless all the nations. Two leading missionary scholars and experienced professors help readers understand how missions began, how missions developed, and where missions is going. The authors cover all of missions history and provide practical application of history's lessons. Maps, tables, box inserts, sidebars, and discussion questions add to the book's usefulness in the classroom.

Contents

1. Missions in the Early Church

2. Encountering Church of the East Missions

3. Encountering Celtic Missions

4. Encountering Orthodox Missions

5. Encountering Dominican and Franciscan Missions

6. Encountering Medieval Renewal Missions

7. Encountering Reformation Missions

8. Encountering Jesuit Missions

9. Encountering Pietist Missions

10. Encountering Moravian Missions

11. Encountering Methodist Missions

12. The Great Century of Protestant Missions, Part I

13. The Great Century, Part II

14. The Twentieth Century

15. Missionary Councils and Congresses

16. Specialized Missions

17. The Church Growth Movement

18. In Retrospect and Prospect

"What is my story? Between the beginning in Eden and the great party around the throne stretches a long, tumultuous story line. This book takes up where the Bible leaves off. The focus is mission, loving our neighbors in word and deed. Whether Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox, whether Gothic or Chinese or European, the narratives are straightforward and easy to understand. Dates and documents are sufficient for credibility. Anecdotes and original poems and hymns spice the accounts. While some names will sound familiar, this book connects them in context, providing a momentum so that one story flows into the next until it is hard to put the book down. Not many general history books can claim that distinction." --Miriam Adeney, associate professor of world Christian studies

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